This text takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political activism and the reconstruction of community, as site-specific intervention into the social and technological structures of abandonment, and as the highly charged embodiments of erotic ...
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This text takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political activism and the reconstruction of community, as site-specific intervention into the social and technological structures of abandonment, and as the highly charged embodiments of erotic fantasies. The book addresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive art-making in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarisation, warfare, separatism and xenophobia. Illustrated with work from North and Central America and eastern and western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes, and, bodily identities and virtual communities.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 9780485004182.
Add this copy of Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture to cart. $38.05, very good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Athlone Press.
Add this copy of Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture to cart. $53.70, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Athlone Pr.
